L' histoire dv Nouveau monde
Subtitle: ou, Description des Indes Occidentales, contenant dix-huict liures
By: par le sieur Iean de Laet, d'Anuers; enrichi de nouuelles tables geographiques & figures des animaux, plantes & fruicts.
Publisher: Chez B. & A. Elseuiers
Published: 1640
Place of publication: A Leyde
Language: fre
Number of pages: 632
Subjects: America -- Discovery and exploration.; America -- Description and travel.
Other titles: Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien.
Work titles: Nieuwe Wereldt.
Notes: T.-p. in red and black.

Printer's mark (the hermit) on t.-p.

"Les cartes géographiques et les figures inserées dans le texte sont celles de l'édition flamande de 1630." --Willems, Les Elzevier, 1880, no. 497.

"This French translation of Laet contains many materials not to be found in the original Dutch, chiefly vocabularies of Indian tribes." -- Sabin.

First edition published in Dutch at Leyden, 1625, under title: Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien.

ROM accession number: 961.252.1.